Deloraine Houle is getting on-the-job training through BUILD, which steers men and women into the building trades. She says, "My grandmother is kind of proud of me - I'm the first girl in my family in carpentry."
"A new inner-city programs, the first of its kind on North America, could see 400 leaky North End rentals get energy retrofits in the next year.
That's 400 down, 79,600 more to go.
This fall, thanks to a tweak in Manitoba Hydro's legislation, two inner-city renovation agencies are hoping to go door to door, block by block, in the William Whyte neighbourhood offering renters thousands of dollars in renovations, effectively for free.
"I blog because my teeth hurt. Even my new teeth."
And you probably do too. Not necessarily because your teeth are new. Pretty much any set of teeth can give one cause to blog - rotten teeth, sensitive teeth, broken teeth. Even ill-fitting new teeth (like mine.)
Times like these, more often now I turn to music that... sounds the way music used to. I know, I'm basically cashing in my chips as an independent, thinking person by hitting the nostalgia button... but there it is. Facts on the ground.
Acanuck is supposed to be covering this, but I thought you'd all be delighted to hear that Canada's socialists are a week away from what would be an historic election upset. Hell, THE election upset of all time up here in the Great White North.
One year - back when we had the combine - Dad decided to plant rye in the big field that ran between our house and the rest of the farm. Beautiful stuff, rye. You may not think kids notice when things...
An initial government report on the rail disaster in India that killed at least 288 people said that a high-speed train smashing into an idled cargo train set off the three-way accident. https://t.co/91pWb6IDqD
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was found dead inside an abandoned warehouse in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood after a more than 12-hour standoff with a police SWAT team.
Chicago police said they responded to the incident in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue just after 11 a.m. Friday.
The man who police believed was armed was seen on top of the building waving what appeared to be guns and a blow torch.
A number of Deep Southern states focused on the basics instead of new agey practices or ideology and are succeeding in boosting reading competency. https://t.co/2CLw3ucdXb
I've spent many years bashing libertarianism. But I think it's time for it to return, in a newer, more constructive, less partisan form. https://t.co/TJzBem1ZSu
— Noah "Rabbit = Good Friend" Smith (@Noahpinion) June 1, 2023
Elon Musk’s Neuralink said Thursday it has received regulatory approval to start the first in-human clinical study for its brain implant.https://t.co/AmHXfwF7CR
Power of Siberia: China keeps Putin waiting on gas pipeline. Beijing is driving a hard bargain as Moscow presses for a new Sino-Russian pipeline through Mongolia. https://t.co/SvfxU08VG7pic.twitter.com/ueiO0knjMt
The asylum seekers had already hopscotched countries for years to escape war in the Horn of Africa. They had barely set foot in Europe, hoping to start new lives, when masked men rounded them up and stripped them of their belongings.
Now they were crammed into the dinghy, rocking on the open waters and trying to shield themselves from the bright sun as Naima Hassan Aden clutched her 6-month-old baby and wept.
After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.
Half of NYC public school students in grades 3-8 fail their reading tests. That's why the city announced plans Tuesday to dramatically change the way children are taught to read. @MKramerTV says this project is personal for Mayor Eric Adams. https://t.co/CvSOUZRUyO
Supporters of Imran Khan clashed with police, blocked roads and stormed military buildings in cities across Pakistan after the former prime minister was arrested in Islamabad https://t.co/5ZRicz7AGspic.twitter.com/PjpeZ9rZmd
#Breaking: City Hall sources confirm to @MKramerTV an internal document says tents, tiny houses may be used inside Central Park if border towns keep sending asylum seekers to New York City because they've run out of hotel space. https://t.co/gfzoJSS5mB
Fascinating new research from Cory Clark and co.: People distrust politicised institutions, even when they share the institution’s political slant. This suggests that, rather than polarising people, politicisation costs institutions trust across the board. https://t.co/rtYcttBd5G